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What do the Forest Dwellers Want to Say?
A forest-dwelling community that fosters coexistence and conservation, and practices activism to secure rights as protected under the law.
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आदिवासी इतिहास का नया अध्याय (In Hindi)
भारत शायद विश्व के उन चुनिंदा देशों में है जहां जंगल-जमीन की स्वाधीनता और स्वायत्तता के सफल आंदोलनों का इतिहास - अकादमिक अथवा शैक्षणिक संस्थाओं में लगभग हाशिये पर है
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Huts of knowledge: These tribal women in Odisha teach their next generation about forests through ‘kutir’ meetings
Apart from sharing traditional knowledge, the women at these meetings also spread awareness on ownership rights
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When the Forest is our Garden, the garden also becomes a place for Conflict (of Interests)
Community mobilisation under the Tribal Yuva Sangathan: Fight for rights under FRA and CFRR, Conservation & revival of traditional practices, Creation of educational spaces
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Collaborative Knowledge Building – The story of River Kaigal
How a high school EVS class led to a Community Conservation and Collaborative Knowledge Building
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Community Forest Rights & The Pandemic: Gram Sabhas Lead the Way (in Malayalam)
Empowerment of villagers to govern and manage local natural resources can sustain economies!
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Who is Dr Rajendra Bharud, the Nandurbar collector who foresaw the need of oxygen plants
When there was a steady decline in cases, he set up their first liquid oxygen plant at the district hospital
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D Litt degrees conferred upon Devaji Tofa & Sunil Deshpande
Long overdue recognition for practitioners of traditional knowledge and alternative learning models.
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Removing forest dwellers from areas to protect biodiversity costs more than involving them: report
"... Such examples of realising economic benefits have a direct positive impact on forest growth,”